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Absent Lord (96 Edition)
by Lawrence A. Babb  Publisher Comments What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these...
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The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden: An Anthology of Medieval Jain Stories (Penguin Classics)
by Phyllis (trn) Granoff Publisher Comments Lively tales of asceticism, wickedness, and virtue from one of Indias great religious traditions Beautifully translated from the Sanskrit, the stories in this volume reflect the vital tradition of Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth...
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Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History
by Deborah R. Weiner Publisher Comments Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia's transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky...
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Life Force : World of Jainism (91 Edition)
by Michael Tobias Publisher Comments Outside India, little is known of Jainism, one of the oldest religions in the world; a gentle faith whose ancient precepts have always nurtured an ecological way of life, and which numbers today nearly ten million adherents. At the root of Jainism's...
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Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life (Religions of the World and Ecology)
by Christopher Key Chapple Publisher Comments The twenty-five-hundred-year-old tradition of Jainism, which emphasizes nonviolence as the only true path leading to liberation, offers a worldview seemingly compatible with the goals of environmental activism. But can Jainism adopt a sociocentric...
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Jains (2ND 02 Edition)
by Paul Dundas Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-335) and index....
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Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Move #53: Historical Dictionary of Jainism
by Kristi L. Wiley Publisher Comments Covers the history of Jainism that spans a period of more than 2,500 years. The history, values, concepts and scriptures, eminent mendicant and lay leaders and scholars, places, institutions, and social and cultural factors are covered in over 600...
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Mahavira Prince of Peace
by Ranchor Prime Publisher Comments Mahavira is known as the founder of the Jain religion. His life was strikingly similar to the life of his contemporary, Gautama Buddha. Like him, Mahavira renounced his throne to seek enlightenment. His most celebrated doctrine, non-violence, was made...
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Religions of the World and Ecology #7: Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life
by Christopher Key Chapple Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-486) and index....
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Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion
by Mary Whitney Kelting Publisher Comments While Western Jain scholarship has focused on those texts and practices favoring male participation, the Jain community itself relies heavily on lay women's participation for religious education, the performance of key rituals, and the locus of religious...
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The Jain Path: Ancient Wisdom for the West
by Aidan Rankin Publisher Comments Jainism is one of the world's oldest religions, and perhaps the most demanding, rational and radical of all of them, attaching a great importance to individual responsibility. Today we are questioning our own inherited values and also rediscovering...
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Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History
by Deborah R. Weiner Publisher Comments Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia's transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky...
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Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India
by John E. Cort Publisher Comments This book offers an illuminating portrait of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Based on field research in northern Gujarat as well as on the study of ancient Sanskrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort discusses the major...
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The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
by Caroline Humphrey Publisher Comments Humphrey and Laidlaw present a new and radical general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Jains of western India. Ritual, they argue, is not a logically separate type of activity, but rather a...
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Jainism: The World of Conquerors, Vol. 1
by Dr Natubhai Shah Book News Annotation Shah offers a comprehensive two-volume reference on the religion of which he is a high official and a PhD. In Volume One he explores the antiquity of Jainism, its history, the teachings of Mahavira, the community, popular Jainism, Jainism in the...
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Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy, and Society Among the Jains (Oxford Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology)
by James Laidlaw Publisher Comments The Jains of India are a flourishing and prosperous community, but their religion is focused on the teaching and example of ascetic renouncers, whose austere regime is actually dedicated to ending worldly life and often culminates in a fast to death...
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Studies in Jaina History and Culture (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies)
by Peter Flugel Publisher Comments Peter Flugel provides a representative snapshot of the current state of Jaina studies that will interest students and academics involved in the study of religion or South Asian cultures....
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Inviting Death: Indian Attitudes Towards the Ritual Death
by S. Settar
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Pada Index and Reverse Pada Index to Early Jain Canons
by Moriichi Yamazaki
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Notecards: To Life!
by Mark Podwa
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